The Firm:
Selby Jennings is partnered with a FinTech startup based in Charlotte, NC in the search for a Tech Lead Manager. The company was founded in 2015 and spun out of a global, $400M+ hedge fund. The platform was originally built internally to help the hedge fund make better investment decisions by acting as a tool to leverage investment strategies, but it quickly became clear that there was a demand for this technology from outside investors. This firm was commercialized 18 months ago, and it now licenses its platform to hedge funds and institutional investors around the world.
The Role:
The Tech Lead Manager will join as a member of the founding team including one technical, full-stack, co-founder and a data scientist to help make meaningful decisions contributing to the firm's commercialization and scalable future growth. This individual will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a full-stack application (Python, JavaScript, AWS), and will have significant influence on technical architecture and product strategy. This unique opportunity awards the successful candidate a driver's seat to further define and scale a sophisticated and well-used product.
Daily Responsibilities:
- Write amazing code in Python and JavaScript
- Full-scope technical ownership of the tech product, working closely with our technical co-founder
- Oversee all back-end and front-end development, hosting and dev-ops frameworks to ensure uptime of the application.
- Collaborate closely with other developers and the management team to ensure timely delivery of new products and features.
- Be a trusted leader with respect to team management, up-skilling and hiring within the engineering team.
- Have a deep understanding of the business domain, ensuring that the software aligns with the company's goals and objectives.
Requirements:
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related study
- 8-12 years of experience of professional software development
- Proficiency in Python, JavaScript and AWS
- 3+ years in a position where you contributed towards meaningful decisions around the direction that technical solutions should take, preferably as a team/tech lead.
Nice-to-have's:
- A deep understanding of database design and modeling
- Prior experience in financial technology, investment technology and/or data science.
- A history of designing and implementing scalable and maintainable software solutions, with a strong focus on object-oriented programming and design principles.
- A deep interest in a wide range of technologies. We work with Python, SQL, poetry, DevOps tooling, Docker, AWS, and web development (HTML/CSS/JS/Bootstrap/etc.).
